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- Title
First record of the invasive Asian fish tapeworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi in Honduras, Central America.
- Authors
Salgado-Maldonado, Guillermo; Matamoros, Wilfredo A.; Kreiser, Brian R.; Caspeta-Mandujano, Juan Manuel; Mendoza-Franco, Edgar F.
- Abstract
This paper provides the first report of the invasive Asian fish tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934, in Honduras. The cestode was found in Profundulus portillorum (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae), which represents a new host record, and which is a member of a genus faced with a variety of conservation challenges, now potentially complicated by the presence of this pathogenic cestode. Nearly complete sequence data from the ITS-1 5.8S and ITS-2 regions corroborate the determination based on morphological characteristics. Several species of carp were introduced to Honduras for aquaculture purposes in the early 1980s and the presence of the Asian fish tapeworm in Honduras may be related to these introductions. In addition, this report documents the currently known geographical distribution of this parasite in Central America, first recorded from Panamá and now from Honduras.
- Subjects
TAPEWORMS; FISH parasites; BOTHRIOCEPHALUS; AQUACULTURE; INTRODUCED species
- Publication
Parasite (1252607X), 2015, Vol 22, p1
- ISSN
1252-607X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/parasite/2015007